ABOUT ME
I dig life, adventure, and wildlife. Professionally I'd like to combine all of the above!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

A few years ago a Costa Rican native called Santiago told me a secret. It was late at night in a palm thatched hut on the bank of the Tarcoles River, deep in the rainforest. The smell of burning cecropia wood filled the air, and we sat facing each other on sturdy benches, across a table hewn from a single cross section of some massive tree, now nearly consumed by termites. The songs of a million insects and frogs filled the night. Santiago's cigarette trembled in his aged fingers as he leaned close over the light of the fire to describe a place hidden in the jungle. He said it was a place where humans had never been. Between rivers, and isolated by a quirk of geography, it had remained forgotten through the centuries. The only tribes who knew of the land had regarded it as sacred and never entered, and so it had remained untouched for millennia. Decades earlier, after weeks of travel up some nameless tributary, Santiago had come to its border. There, he said, you could watch jaguars sunning themselves on open beaches in the morning; harpy eagles haunted the canopy and flocks of macaws filled the sky like flying rainbows. The river was so thick with fish that you could scoop up dinner with your bare hands. What he described was a lost world...one of the wildest places left on earth. I live for places such as these across the globe. Which is why I travel. Its my life....I often say "Life is about the experiences you have, and the people you meet along the way"...by staying and adventuring with locals, Couchsurfing offers explorers a ground level perspective of the world we live in. Which I believe is really important :)

Interests

Hiking. Kayaking. Scuba Diving. Mountaineering. Wildlife. Climbing. Traveling. Anything that gets my adrenaline going!

• wildlife
• fish
• insects
• flying
• traveling
• fishing
• hiking
• kayaking
• mountaineering
• scuba diving
• rock climbing
• geography
• beaches
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

TV:
Game of Thrones
Walking Dead
Parks and Rec
Short Poppies
Rake (AU)
Modern Family
Doctor Who
National Geographic
Man Vs. Wild

Movies:
The Avengers
The Dark Knight
Last Samurai
Lord of the Rings
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
I could go on for days haha

Music:
I have a pretty eclectic taste in pretty much anything. Especially music but I like anything that feeds my energy. Stuff that makes me feel good
Eric Hutchinson
Coldplay
Perrin Lamb
Sigur ros
Xavier Rudd
Dewayne Everettsmith
Khaled
Sakanaction
Aloe Blacc
K'naan
Ben Howard
Sam Smith
Tamarama
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Missy Higgins
Queen
Birds of Tokyo
Ed sheeran

Books:
*Mother of God by Paul Rosolie (If you're passionate about rugged adventure, and Wildlife. Please read this book. It's my personal favourite)
*The Kid Who Climbed Everest
*100 Heartbeats
*Cathedral of the Wild
*Last Hours On Everest
*Denali's Howl
*Part of the Pride
*In a Sunburnt Country
*Crossing the Heart of Africa
*Lunatic Express
*The Tiger

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Pitched a tent with my dad and uncle in the middle of a sprawling beach in Northern Australia. Sometime in the night, a sound just in front of our tent woke me. Something big was nearby. I slowly unzipped the front of the tent, and peered out with my head lamp. In the beam of my light were two glowing red eyes not 2 meters from our tent. Where the water met the beach lay a tremendous saltwater crocodile. She must have been upwards of 14 feet. From our ground level perspective. She was massive. Looking left and right up and down the bank the river before us was a swarm of red orbs. To find yourself out in the wilderness with a host of giant saurians staring expectantly at you with glowing red eyes is a strange sensation, to say the least. They were all staring at us...and we realised that we needed to find a better place to sleep for the night lol

Countries I’ve Visited

Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Canada, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, United States, Virgin Islands, British

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, United States